John Morley: “I value our insular position, but I dread the day when we shall be reduced to a moral insularity....”

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.

Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.

Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.